Serbia in the late 1990s. Prison cell. Vjeran, a Belgrade transvestite arrested for prostitution. Nikola, a political prisoner and organizer of demonstrations against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

The central theme of this contemporary story is a seventy-year-old, an extremely rich, clever and witty man, the so-called tycoon Krsto Karamancic.

The story begins at the darkest moment in 1916 when the country is occupied, the army on Corfu. The plot follows the historical events until 1921 and the death of King Peter, ie the Great War, the liberation of the country, the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

A well-educated family man realizes that his life is in crisis. Could the next generation do better?

A modest Serbian girl from the 1930s loses both her parents in a year. She gets abducted by a beautiful stranger who forces her to marry him. For her he remains a mystery she is trying to solve throughout the series which is based on the novel of the same name my Mir-Jam.